The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-22
SITTING ROOM AND SIDEWALK.
Facts and Fancies about Many Things

Facts and Fancies about Many Things.
The small woman has contrivance for
getting even with the world. saw her use
it for the first time yesterday and was struck
| with the simplicity of her scheme. To be
| five feet high and to have your palpable
earthly weight limited to 100 pounds is a
| great deal of disadvantage in this world
| The little woman never has Justice done her
| she is designing, she is deceitful, she is a
bundle of typifed pettiness to the novelist,
and the tall majestic creature, who carries
off all the virtues with which a story-teller
endows an eligible heroine, is in real life the
| only woman who stands ghost of a chance
in crowd.
The little woman has borne it as long as
she cares to- She has rebelled against the
inequalities of Providence and taken the
question of stature in cases of emergency
into her own hands,
They say that Mrs. Langtry likes ice cream
soda. If she does perhaps that is what called
her into a Broadway confectionerS just when
group of curious gazers had their eyes fixed
ON her to watch her pass. The little woman
was on the outskirts of the throng and came
up Just in season to see the folds of dark
green walking gown disappear through the
doorway. The people in front of her We're
all but fattening their noses against the
NlIIlOW, Dup bllS ollldll WOIIicll IIOIllOu was
bounded by the broadcloth shoulders that
hemmed her in and the jet ornaments on
the beaded wraps that flashed close to her
eyes.
The small woman rose to the situation:
rose literally and to my bewildered sight
some three inches higher above the ground.
She seemed to stand there quietly and with
out any ado about it as if, in case she chose,
she had perfect right to six feet at the
least She peered between the heads of her
neighbors at the boubons behind the glass,
and then, apparently satisfied that no glimpse
of the gurging of the refreshing draught
down Mrs. Langtrys throat was even to the
tallest of women forthcoming, resumed her
normal attitude and walked composedly
away.
She had springs on the soles of her boots,
SO shoemaker told me half an hour after
ward, and he added that he had had calls
for six or eight pairs within the past two
weeks The boots are arranged as for every
day pedestrianism, but furnished with an
invisible wire frame that is disposed of in a
variety of ways, but usually lies close about
the toe and heel when not wanted, slipping
down to furnish a silt for the foot in any
case of need. The little woman has been
acknowledged always an ingenious creature,
and now that she has fairly sets her wits at
work remedying the shortcomings of nature
you may expect to meet her tomorrow on
the street adjusting her inches comfortably
according to the attractions that demand,
but used to demand in vain, to be seen.
WOMEN AND PoSIEs.
What won't woman do with the poor,
defenseless posies next? The flower muff
was April's freak the bonnet of flowers is
the next caprice and is assigned to May. The
first buds of this new floral outburst peeped
timidly forth this week, and in spite of the
hot May sun that seems almost to make such
fragile decoration as impossible as it is whim-
steal, the notion is morally sure to blossom
out lavishly at once. Imagine a couple of
handfuls of apple blooms, the pink buds and
the white petals thrown carelessly together,
woven into a low, fat, fragrant piece of
headgear without strings. An apple bios
som bonnet in Central Park yesterday was
worn by girl in her teens, who played a
morning game of tennis, with the delightful
consciousness that comes or is tabled to come
of having ON something absolutely new.
The little overdressed Youngsters whose
nurses wouldn't let them stoop to pick up
the most bewitching of round pebbles, and
the early promenaders stopped to look at her
and If that freak in the present maniacal
craze for flower wearing doesn't find inside
the next ten days some scores of imitators
peopling the streets with walking conserva-
tories then hobbies have forgotten how they
begin. The flower bonnet has-as nearly as
a loose meshed wire lace for a foundation
that allows of fresh filling for the afternoon
stroll if the sun has faded the morning SUD-
ply.
Olive Logan has never been identified with
the woman suffrage movement, but she is a
shrewd observer and some interest NAV at
tach to her Judgment of the apparently in
evitable, whether desirable or undesirable.
trend of the times. II have never cared to
take part" she said, in recent converse
ton, lin the agitation for the ballot because
l doubt if the ballot is to be obtained in that
way. But have kept myself for years in
touch with women, and they are taking
such place in every modern activity that it
is hard to see how that single distinction on
account OF sex can be maintained much
longer | can remember when Margaret
Fuller's let them be sea captains, if they
WILL was too absurd even to laugh at: but
two women have become captains within
the year, and woman has obtained pilots
license this past month The inconcefvable
has turned into the actual. People laughed
at Lincoln for years. They have almost
stopped laughing at Lucy Stone and Mrs
Stanton and Miss Anthony now; they may
reverence them too by and by"
TRoUssEAU BREAKFAST.
Have you been to trousseau breakfast?
A quite recent invention, il has given a fresh
hCiuOliSuidOiOu VI IttCU UIlaU cOI0pe-
tition is the life of many things other than
trade. With forty covers, some hundreds
of dollars worth of rose decoration an
orchid table or two, darkened rooms, cam
dies with pink shades and the latest triumph
of the caterer for general preliminaries, it
has jeweled hands lifted in ecstatic admira-
ton over the going away provision of I'M
derwear and gowns and a chorus of excla-
nations at the texture of the bridal veil for
triumphal crescendo and climax As mat
ter of course, what cost hundreds Yesterday
runs up into the thousands to-day, for one
can't send out cards to the dear unmarried
for whom the season has not turned out so
profitably without showing them a finer
display than was made by the not unwilling
bud that burst into flower last week.
A prettier custom and one that has ample
justification for itself is the brides farewell
dinner that is springing into sudden popu-
larity this spring, The groom that is to be
hes long had way of getting his bachelor
friends about him and holding high revel
before the knot that makes him Benedict
is tied. The bride is finding out that it is
equally pleasant when the wedding day has
been set and before she says goodbye to her
girlish friends to give an afternoon or an
evening TO "reminiscences and re-enjoyment
of bygone good times.
Can you swims If not, take some lessons
before you pack your Saratoga for the sea-
side. lnexorable fate-that is, the fashion